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KURTZ DITCH NO 2
Structure dossier · WDID 5000593 · 1 · TROUBLESOME CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:59 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Where it sits
Location as DWR records it. Faint dots are the neighbouring water; click any to open it.
Which of its rights are out of priority?
Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1892-06-02 — 48th most senior of the 360 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..
Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: ANTELOPE CREEK NO 2 DITCH (1892-06-01). Immediately behind: MISSOURI DITCH (1892-06-02).
Decreed rights (3)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15494.0 | 1892-06-02 | 1906-08-11 | 2.45 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 49 |
| 21853.0 | 1909-10-31 | 1911-08-03 | 86.0 | 0.0 | C | IRR | 108 |
| 40028.0 | 1959-08-05 | 1964-09-05 | 0.0 | 82.55 | C | IRRMUNINDRECFISDOMSTK |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 7,445 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 9,516 AF — 128% of that, and 14th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10,657 | 15th lowest of 15 · 143% of median | 192 | 90.0 |
| 2011 | 9,112 | 13th lowest of 15 · 122% of median | 118 | 71.6 |
| 2012 | 3,137 | 1st lowest of 15 · 42% of median | 90 | 32.0 |
| 2013 | 4,480 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 56 | 74.3 |
| 2014 | 7,445 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 90 | 77.2 |
| 2015 | 7,552 | 10th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 153 | 60.2 |
| 2016 | 8,313 | 12th lowest of 15 · 112% of median | 95 | 79.2 |
| 2017 | 7,354 | 7th lowest of 15 · 99% of median | 162 | 61.8 |
| 2018 | 5,722 | 4th lowest of 15 · 77% of median | 203 | 75.1 |
| 2019 | 7,512 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 104 | 65.2 |
| 2020 | 6,618 | 6th lowest of 15 · 89% of median | 175 | 60.0 |
| 2021 | 4,005 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 54% of median | 169 | 45.0 |
| 2022 | 6,187 | 5th lowest of 15 · 83% of median | 112 | 68.1 |
| 2023 | 7,899 | 11th lowest of 15 · 106% of median | 158 | 55.0 |
| 2024 | 9,516 | 14th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 105 | 97.5 |
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